"Carolina Spartan" Issue: April 11, 1883 Last Friday night the dwelling house of Lafayette BRIGGS, ten miles from Union, was burned. Mr. BRIGGS was here that night. The family was sleeping up stairs. The fire originated below. Mrs. BRIGGS and the children had to escape through a window, and after she got the children down to safety she broke her thigh in the attempt to get down. Furniture was all lost. About Jersey Cattle. . . St. Bernard, one of the finest bulls in the South, stands at the head of the Spartanburg Jerseys. He is a magnificent animal from the aristocratic Signal family, large in size, very gentle and manageable and when it comes to "points" he would score very high. He is owned by L.A. MILLS. The farmers who breed their best cows to this animal stand a chance of getting $100. The number of Jerseys in the county registered or subject to registration, is as follows: L.A. MILLS, 4; T. J. MOORE, 7; Frank L. ANDERSIN, 2; Thos. RICHARDSON, 1; H.M. CHAPMAN, 1; Thos. IRWIN, 1; Mr. LUCAS 1; Dr. FLEMING, 1; Jos. WALKER, 1; Total 19. Besides these the following persons each have full-blooded unregistered Jerseys: W.C. CANNON, 1; J.C.ARCHER, 1; Perry CHAPMAN, 1; Thos IRWIN, 4; J.H. MONTGOMERY, 2. Then there is a considerable number of grades, sired by St. Bernard. A neat marble slab has been erected to the memory of Bishop WIGHTMAN in Foster's Chapel in Union county. It has an appropriate inscription. It was at this Church that he Bishop preached his last sermon, and the members of the congregation have paid a deserved tribute to the memory of a good man. The King's Mountain correspondent of the Shelby Aurora has this to say about two Spartanburg men who were boys together on the Pacolet hills. For many years Dr. TRACY has been living near King's Mountain and he is a leading citizen of his neighborhood. Here is the paragraph: Dr. TRACY actually left home last Wednesday morning without his saddlebags. Old man Charley HAMMET of Spartanburg was sick and so when the morning Local passed the Dr. boarded for Cowpens. He came back to King's Mountain Friday afternoon, and told his friends that he had been treated like a Prince down in Spartanburg. He had visited the home of his childhood and had met many warm friends but he was very sorry for one thing-He had become dissatisfied with "Maggie" (his saddle horse). Well said the Dr. "There is no use going around the stump about it." Charles HAMMET has the finest horse I ever laid my eyes upon". "He holds his head so high, sir, that you can't see over it, when you are on his back, and when you put him in a buggy he goes just like a whirlwind, sir." JUDGEMENT FOR FORECLOSURE: L.A. MILLS, Plaintiff Against Davis WHITMAN, Defendant By virtue of an order, . . I will sell property: A town lot lying and being in the city of Spartanburg, and bounded by lots of S.B. EZELL and Thompson & Harris and fronting on the Public Square, twenty-five (25) feet and running back one hundred and seventy-nine feet to a new street, containing a fraction on one acre, being a portion of the former homestead of Jesse CLEVELAND, deceased. EXECUTOR'S SALE: We will sell on the premises at Inman, S.C., on the 1st day of May, 1883, at public outcry, to the highest bidder, the following described property, to wit: One tract of land containing 74 acres, lying one mile north from Inman Station, and divided by the S. & A. RR, well watered. Also One tract containing 54 acres, one mile east of S.&A. RR and improved by an everlasting mill dam and water power, fine corn and Flouring mills, sash, saw and fixtures. 25 acres under cultivation, together with miller's house. Also One lot in the town of Inman, containing one acre, and improved with a three-room house, comfortable for a residence. Also Two good mules, one cow, lot of farming implements, gearing, wagon, and other articles. [cut off] Issue: April 18, 1883 A stray planet struck Texas about 2 a.m. Sunday. It covers over one acre of ground and has sunk far in the earth. About 70 feet of it is above ground. It demolished a herdsman's house and family. There is great excitement in the community. Last Friday night the dwelling house of Lafayette BRIGGS, ten miles from Union was burned. Mr. BRIGGS was here that night. The family was sleeping up stairs. The fire originated below. Mrs. BRIGGS and the children had to escape through a window, and after she got the children down to safety she broke her thigh in the attempt to get down. Furniture was all lost. Issue: April 25, 1883 J.T.H. WHITE was severely hurt Monday evening while riding from the depot to his home at the mill in a wagon. The mule took sudden fright about St. John's college, and the end of an umbrella on which Mr. WHITE was resting his chin as he was riding along was forced through his jaw injuring the bone and breaking several of his teeth. His friends hope he will soon recover. The Scientific American, a very reliable paper, gives the following recipe as a sure cure for corns. As the remedy is very simple, if any of our readers are afflicted with corns it would probably be well for them to give it a trial. "Take one-fourth cup of strong vinegar; crumble it into some bread. Let it stand half an hour, or until if softens into a good poultice. Then apply on retiring at night. In the morning the soreness will be gone and the corn can be picked out. If the corn is a very obstinate one it may require two or more applications to effect a cure." free post Lisa